Holder for toothbrushes, paste tubes, or tooth powder and tumblers



May 18 1926. 1,585,322 H. c. ALGER PASTE TUBES, ,OR TOOTH POWDER AND TUMBLERS Filed July 18, 1924 HOLDER FOR TOOTH BRUSHES Patented l lay l8, i926.

STATES PATENT QFFEQEQ HARRIET C. AIS-ER, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

HOLDER FOR TGOTHIBRUSHES, PASTE TUBES, OR TOOTH POVJDER AND TUMBLEBIS. I

Application filed July 18,

The present invention relates to a holder intended to contain a tube of tooth pas e, and one or more tooth brushes and a tumbler. It is adapted to be attached to the wall near the washstand and furnishes a convenient receptacle for the toilet articles enumerated permitting easy removal of any or all of them. The holder is of very simple construction, cheap to manufacture and may accordingly be marketed at a correspondin gly low price.

Tn the accompanying drawing, one embodiment of the invention is illustrated, and

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the holder;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Figure 1, and

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Figure 1.

The holder consists of a cup 10 perferably made of sheet metal having a solid bottom and upstanding sides 11 which are continued upwardly by narrow posts 12 and terminates in a ring 13 connecting said posts. 111 this manner the lower part of the cup is closed and the upper portion provided with open sides. The cup may conveniently be pressed out of a blank of sheet metal.

To the wall 11 on the rear side of the cup 10 is secured, as by soldering, a bracket 14 extending a short distance to the rear of the cup and terminating with a flat broad foot 15 adapted to be attached, as by screws 16 or the like, against the wall of the room. Firmly secured to the bracket it close to the cup 11 is a shank 17 which is preferably made of a continuous piece of metallic wire twisted or doubled, as best seen in Fig. 1. The wire of this shank continues outwardly in opposite directions in a horizontal plane some distance below the cup 10 to form two parallel bars 18 and 19 the ends of which are twisted to form a series of loops 20 each adapted to receive the handle of a tooth brush.

An open-ended semi-cylindrical channel 21, perferably made of sheet metal, is sustained on the two bars 18 and 19 by turning the upper edges of the channel around said Jars. This channel forms a receptacle for 1924. Serial No. 726,785.

a tube containing tooth paste or tooth powder and being open-ended it is evident that the tube may easily be pulled out from either end of the channel or lifted up through the top thereof. The tooth brush to be used may be easily lifted out of its loop 20 and the tumbler taken from the cup 10 when a person is going to use these articles.

It is evident that the entire holder may be made of sheet metal instead of part sheet metal and part wire or made of wire and mesh, the latter being used for the cup 10 and the channel 21. The holder may be nickel-plated or enameled or finished in any other manner desirable.

Instead of making the holder as above described from sheet metal and wire, the entire holder may be cast in iron or brass or made of porcelain.

Having thus described the invention, 1 claim:

1.. A device of the character described comprising a frame having forward and rear bars and end portions connecting said for ward and rear bars, said end portions being provided with a brush-supporting loop extending inwardly of the frame, a shank entending upwardly from said rear bar intermediate its length and adapted to be secured to a support, and a bracing member disposed between said forward and rear bars, said bracing member being of less length than said fr; me and having walls mounted at their upper ends upon the forward and rear bars between the said end portions of the frame.

2. A device of the character described comprising a frame having forward and rear bars and end portions connecting said forward and rear bars, said end portions be ng provided with an inwardly extending articlesuspending element, a mounting shank extending fron said frame intermediate the length of said rear bar, and a bracing member disposed within said frame, said bracing member being U-shaped in cross section and having its forward and rear walls connected at their upper ends to the forward and rear bars of said frame between the said end portions of the frame.

3. A device of the character described comprising an open frame having forward and rear bars and end portions connecting the same, said end portions being provided with an inwardly extending article-suspending loop, and an elongated brace member disposed between the forward and rear bars of said frame with its ends terminating in spaced relation to said suspending loop, said brace member being U-shaped in cross section and having its upstanding forward and rear walls secured to the forward a d rear bars of said frame.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature HARRIET o. 1,. s2] 

